Here are 95 Flappy Bird-inspired iOS games... released in the last 24 hours

In the last 24 hours, just under 300 new iOS games went live on Apple’s App Store. Nearly one third of them were clones of – or heavily inspired by – recent app phenomenon Flappy Bird.

That puts recent claims that Apple was rejecting Flappy Bird clones into perspective. While some developers may have been told “your app name attempts to leverage a popular app”, many others are either slipping through the net, or simply using different names.

Every morning, I swipe my way through RSS feeds – pulled from the Appshopper website – of every major App Store category, as part of the research for the monthly Best iPhone and iPadApps feature. I do the same thing for Google Play from a different source.

Today, when I launched my RSS reader, there were 293 new iOS games released since 5am yesterday morning. After scooting through them, I’ve been able to identify 95 that are obvious Flappy Bird-inspired games.

The vast majority of these will sink without trace, of course. But at the time of writing, four of the top five free iPhone games in the US App Store fall into the Flappy genre – Flappy Wings, Hoppy Frog, Flying Cyrus - Wrecking Ball and Splashy Fish. In the UK, those four are all in the top 10.

Here are the 95 iOS games from the last day chasing that dream. I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions about what this says about the mobile gaming world in early 2014.

Flappy iOS game releases: 5am - 5am (GMT) 26 Feb - 27 Feb

Tappy Bieber

Flying Duckie

Flappy Penguin - Revenge

Easy Flappy Penguin

Flappy The City Flyer - Premium

Flying Rainbow Cat

Wander Ghost

Tappy Nyan

Flappy Monsters

Splashy Bird Ghost

Floppy Spongy

Tappy Duck - The Journey of a Flying Bird

Real Bird: Tap to Fly!

Flying Unicorn - Fly Like a Bird!

Floating Felix

Annoying Flappy Fly – In The Search For Disgusting Bathroom Treats

Capeman

Flyrect

Flying Pig - Tiny Rush Adventure

Scrappy Bird

Splashy Girl

Duckie: The Bird

Eagle Run

Le Kitten : The Adventure of Hoppy Cat

Flying bird deluxe

Plane Fly!

Block Fly

Crazy Dodo Pro - Save the bird from extinction

Flying UFO

Paper Bird

FlyFlyBirdySaga

My Fat Flying Dragon

Tap Tap Flyers

Flappy - UFO

Flappy Beard Hipster Quest

Flappy Love

Flying Bird - Up to the sky

Adventure of Duck Toy

Happy Bird Lite

Jumping Fred - Flapping Wings Adventure

Flying Hero Free

Fly Birsh

Buffalo Wings!

Flappy Kitty (The adventure of a kitty flying like a bird)

Jumping Submarine

Flying Wing

Birdie Flap

Flappy Bat Adventures

Flapping Ninja

Flip Flappy Troll

Floppy Worm - A Flappy Worm that flies like a bird!

Flappy Ninja Kid | Flappying in the Dark Galaxy

Flappy Mania

Zeppy Zeppelin

Tap Car

Flappy Parrot - A Tribute Game

Ninja Bird

Flappy Reef

Tweety High Fly

Flappy Pyro Bird

Flappy Duck - OneAppStudio

Flapping Dino

Office Bird: Splashy Quest of Love

Flippy Kitty

Jumpy JellyFish

Surfin Bird

Flappy JR

Super Pipe Bird

Flying Brick

Teeny Tiny Bird Free

Little Crow Pro

TapToFlap!

Flippy Bird 3D

Flying Flappy Fish HD

Buzzy Bug

FlyCraft

Flappy’s Pipe Dream

Candy Bird - Candyholic Clumsy Bird

Flying Mustache

Sad Bird - the upside down one

Flying Zombie Bird

Chubby Birdy

Flap brids

Splashy Turtle

Tappy Fish!

Fok’n‘Fly

Gassy Boo

Ugly Bird

Flappy Mipsters

Silly Fish

Swimmy Fish Adventure

A Floppy Floppy Flying Disk in The Land of 8 Bit Retro Game

The Pipe

Scatty Fly

Bouncy Birdie

Will any of these games succeed? Flying Cyrus’ success means my bets are on Tappy Bieber, although I like the cut of Flappy Beard Hipster Quest’s jib the most.